Kratzer und Unschärfen.||||||||||||||

Symposium october 27th - 29th 2006, Gießen||||||||||
Scratches and blur.||||||||
|||||||||||approach towards an aesthetic of the imperfect.

The scratch unites wound and tool - ice-scraper and abrasion are methods of revealing the surface. This is marked as such, opens itself while staying undissolved.
The blur names units of space and time that negate and maintain the surface at the same time. In its scattered nature, the blur refers to the plane surface, endangers the matter and, in its vagueness, also protects it. The blur creates measurement just as the measurement creates blur.
Scratches and blur are not limited by the medium - as a scratch in space, a blur in narration, a scratch in time and a blur in perspective, they suspend conventional relationships and allow for new conditions. Their effect is immediate. The gap and permeability of the artworks surface becomes intended provoked, it occurs through scratches - the questioning of the surface emphasises its performativity.||||||||||||||||||||

The work of art can be experienced through scratches and blur, through cords in films, the noise and crackling in recordings or through cracks and fissures in pictures.
How deep must a scratch be to be perceptible? How deep does it have it be to attack the identity, but not integrity, of an artwork? How many scratches can an artwork take? Do they enable authenticity, or do they brand its creation? What are the modes of operation, under what conditions do caesura and fractures appear?Can errors be directed, or is any production of mistakes a strategy to keep them at bay? Does the increased establishment of strategies of the incomplete stand for the decline of systematic utopia, or are new ideals for a post-sovereign ability to act able to emerge?||||||||||||||||||||||

exkurs->d i s k u r s 0 7 is a preceding symposium to the d i s k u r s 0 7 that is dedicated towards the questions surrounding scratches and blur. Doctorates, students and young artists out of a variety of fields will investigate these terms through lectures and artistic work. The approach towards scratches and blur should be carried out interdisciplinary in the reflection of various media and socio-cultural phenomena, by focusing on various (unfocused) details in order to attempt a preparation for an aesthetic of the imperfect. The examining of the artistic and academic work process is of importance, especially in its relationship between theory and practice. exkurs-> sees itself as a network of young artists as well as academic newcomers. We aspire towards a continuing discussion with regards to d i s k u r s 0 7.|||||||||||||||||||||||||

Project
by exkurs->d i s k u r s 0 7

Past Performances

• 2006-10-27, premiere , Gießen